Viral Changing Room Photo: Mothers or Parents?
A dad posted this photo on Instagram a few days ago of him making a make-shift changing table with his legs. He asked in his post "What’s the deal with not having changing tables in men’s bathroom? As if we don’t exist!!"
More than just being inconvenient for dads, only putting changing tables in women's room is a controlling image that conditions all people to assume that parental duties must fall to women. If there aren't any changing tables in the men's room, women will be more inclined to do the work because they know they have a designated place to change them and men will be less inclined to help the infrastructure that allows women to carry out child care duties is literally unavailable to them.
It it also systematically annihilates the presence of single dads or multiple dad families that would not have access to the women's room at all. The absence of changing tables both erases the presence of a father in the child care realm and simultaneously pushed duties that could be split solely onto women.
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